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TFD10 Prep: Diablo Technologies
This is part of my series of posts for Tech Field Day 10. Diablo have had an interesting time since I last looked at them in detail, a bit over a year ago. Diablo was ruled the prevailing party in the...
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The Eigencast 007: HDS Goes All Flash
HDS released a range of all-flash arrays earlier this week, dubbed the A-series, and Justin spoke with HDS Technology Evangelist Greg Knieriemen about the products, and why HDS have created them. You...
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The Eigencast 008: Analysts and Decision Making
Part 2 of the discussion between Justin and Greg Knieriemen about how analysts shape the marketplace, and how customers make decisions. They talk about the realpolitick of the storage industry, and...
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TFD10 Prep: Dell
This is part of my series of posts for Tech Field Day 10. Dell have been in the news a bit lately. Funny that. I assume that for this TFD we’re going to get the usual grab bag of a few different parts...
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TFD10 Prep: Rubrik
This is part of my series of posts for Tech Field Day 10. Rubrik are one of a number of companies who have decided that the secondary storage market–basically everything that isn’t primary storage–has...
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TFD10 Prep: Caringo
This is part of my series of posts for Tech Field Day 10. Caringo is an object storage software company, essentially. Caringo make a thing called Swarm, which is scale-out object storage software. It...
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The Eigencast 009: Rubrik
Chris Wahl, Technical Evangelist, Rubrik Justin talks to Chris Wahl, Technical Evangelist at Rubrik about the company’s approach to backup and recovery, and what a technical evangelist actually is....
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SFD9 Prep: NetApp
Storage Field Day 9 is just over a week away, so time to dig into some preparation posts! First up is NetApp, which is a public company, so let’s dig into the financials and see what they can tell us...
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SFD9 Prep: Violin Memory
Violin Memory are another public company, so we can dig into their financials to find out what’s going on. I’ve once again estimated 2016 full year results by extrapolating from the first three...
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SFD9 Prep: Plexistor
Plexistor sell something they want to call “Software Defined Memory” which is an odd term that feels like trying to jump on the bandwagon of calling things software-defined. I guess the thinking is...
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SFD9 Prep: VMware
This is part of a series of posts about Storage Field Day 9. We’re going to be hearing about VMware’s storage story, which will most likely involve Virtual SAN, or VSAN. VMware is also a public...
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The Eigencast 013: Howard Marks
Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, DeepStorage Justin talks to Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist at DeepStorage about his predictions for the enterprise storage industry in 2016. They...
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SFD9 Prep: Cohesity
This is part of a series of posts about Storage Field Day 9. Cohesity is one of a relatively small number of storage companies going after the secondary storage market. The primary storage market is...
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SFD9 Prep: Intel
This is part of a series of posts about Storage Field Day 9. Intel are a public company, so let’s use their SEC filings to find out what they’re up to. Here’s my summary of Intel in one chart: Intel...
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The Eigencast 014: Pure Startup
From left: Justin Warren, Blue Cow, Scott Dietzen, CEO of Pure Storage (Photo: Justin Warren) Justin talks to Scott Dietzen, CEO of Pure Storage, about keeping a startup culture inside a public...
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The Eigencast 017: Nutanix .NEXT with Sudheesh Nair
Sudheesh Nair, President of Nutanix (Source: LinkedIn) Justin talks to Sudheesh Nair, President of Nutanix, at the Nutanix .NEXT 2016 conference, held in Las Vegas, NV. We discuss the delayed Nutanix...
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CFD1 Prep: Scality
I was only peripherally aware of Scality until last week when I attended the Scality presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2016. I came away impressed. Jerome Lecat is an entertaining...
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Project: Kubernetes From Scratch
Photo by uncleboatshoes@flickr.com After getting stuck into the world of Kubernetes last week at KubeCon, I’ve decided to explore the details of running a container environment as a little...
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This is part of my series on Kubernetes From Scratch. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan While we’re not quite creating a universe out of...
View ArticleDisclosure: VeeamON 2017 Edition
Justin disclosures the corporate largesse heaped upon him during VeeamON in 2017. Read More
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